March 4, 2015

This weekend the 7th & 8th March, you can find me and my new bridal collection at ‘A Most Curious Wedding Fair’ in the Truman Brewery, Brick Lane!
I’m super excited to be taking part as it looks set to be an awesome event with a lot of exciting and interesting exhibitors.

I’m also going to have a few pieces available to take away on the day at a special show price. The first is this Petal Headband –

Made from silk tulle, guipiure lace petals and silver bugle beads. Special weekend price of £45

The next is the Fiona headband –

Made from hand wired faux hydrangeas and silk tulle and available in 3 colours – ivory, pastel pink and periwinkle blue. Special weekend price of £50.

I will have the whole collection with me too, so hope you can come down to have some fun and try some pieces on!

August 26, 2014

This Season I need your help in funding my SS15 photoshoot so thought I would try Kickstarter out for the first time.
Any help will be HUGELY appreciated, even just sharing this link and spreading the word. If you are kind enough to make a pledge then there are some great rewards to choose from, from pin badges to pillbox hats! Some are exclusive to Kickstarter and some pieces have a special reduced price exclusively for KS pledgers.

Your generous pledges will enable me to pay for my photo shoot and add to the progression of AM Millinery.

April 9, 2014

Spring seems to have finally hit London- hooray! So I thought it a fitting time to release my new Spring capsule collection – Sakura.

‘Sakura’ literally means ‘cherry blossom’ in Japanese. The arrival of ‘sakura’ in Japan is a celebrated event called ‘Hanami’. Hanami is an important Japanese custom and literally means ‘viewing flowers’, but it generally indicates cherry blossom viewing. It’s said that the origin of hanami dates back to more than one thousand years ago when aristocrats enjoyed looking at beautiful cherry blossoms and wrote poems. I would love to go a Hanami festival one day but until then I will keep daydreaming about Japan and I guess this collection will have to be my Spring celebration.

Sakura is a series of hand painted brass and leather fashion accessories including hair bands, hair pins, and jewellery. The collection was designed over a grey and dull Winter when I was dreaming of Spring to arrive and bring with it some much needed C O L O U R Every piece has been hand spray painted in a mix of pastel blues, pinks, lilacs and metallic golds giving a random, ‘colour burst’ effect. I wanted this collection to be affordable so prices range from £6 for a ponytail band to £28 for a leather alice band.

February 10, 2014

Starting tomorrow – Tuesday 11th February – a selection of work from my 2014 collections will be on exhibition at Craft Central in Clerkenwell.

Celebrating London Fashion Week, Craft Central presents FASHIONED – a cross-disciplinary exhibition of wearable artworks by 25 leading designer-makers. FASHIONED will feature a diverse selection of trail-blazing contemporary fashion, jewellery and accessories, all made in the UK.

FASHIONED will explore the making processes, sculptural forms, innovative materials and narrative elements that contribute to the making of cutting-edge fashion, jewellery and accessories that remain wearable.

December 23, 2013

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and all the best for 2014!

This year has flown by and I can’t believe I actually managed to survive a whole year working for myself! I’m extremely excited about 2014 and everything thats already planned for it (new collections, a capsule collection for Ascot and a collaboration with Singapore based designer MAH to name a few!)

Thank you to everyone that has supported me this year and special thanks to my beautiful models Harriet, Erika and Kerry who have let me plonk my hats onto their beautiful heads to be photographed and didn’t want anything in return. Much love to you lovely girls 🙂

September 12, 2011

After a busy but wonderful Summer spent working on various Wedding commissions, re-stocking some London stores, exploring the surreal Isle of Rum in the Hebrides, setting up a Bridal label, back packing around Greece and finally learning how to drive, I’ve now got to pull my sleeves up and sew faster and more furiously than ever before!

I’m currently working on producing stock for 3 new stockists and an exhibition, designing a new logo and packaging and trying to prepare for a few Christmas shows. Phew!

Details of upcoming events will follow but for now, here are some beautiful Summer Brides wearing Ann-Marie Faulkner Millinery!